Community Corner
Sam Durant: Pigs and Gold
The Eastern Star Gallery, a unique art exhibition space located on
the Brentwood campus of The Archer School for Girls, an independent middle and high school in Los Angeles, will be the venue for “Pigs and Gold”, an exhibition of original work by multimedia artist Sam Durant. “Pigs and Gold” will be on view at The Eastern Star Gallery from February 6 through March 18, 2014. The exhibition is free to the public. The gallery will host a reception for Durant on Thursday, February 6, at 6:30p.m., followed by an artist talk and Q&A at 7:30 pm.
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the United States.